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There was at least one person near her in the video of that women getting shot who was clearly armed with an assault rifle. She may have been unarmed but was st

There was at least one person near her in the video of that women getting shot who was clearly armed with an assault rifle. She may have been unarmed but was storming the chamber with other armed people. The security on the other side had good reason to believe she was a dangerous threat.

jeffbee 6y ago
The guy with a carbine in the video is a police tactical officer. The main question about this scene is not why the secret service officer shot the woman who defied a lawful order by entering the chambers through a broken window and over the top of a barricade. The question is why she hadn't been shot long before.
- LargeWu 6y ago
  Yeah, you're right, the original video I saw was tightly shot and only showed the weapon. There was a similar video released later where those officers where coming up a staircase from behind.
kyleblarson 6y ago
There is no such thing as an 'assault rifle'. It is a made up term.
- jeffbee 6y ago
  If you're going to operate at the intersection of gun nuttery and prescriptive English usage, it would help you to be right. The US Army "Small Arms Identification Guide" defined the term at least 50 years ago. https://web.archive.org/web/20190904213732/http://031d26d.namesecurehost.com/gunfax/fstcp67.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20190904213732/http://031d26d.na...
- CyanBird 6y ago
  Sad to see moderators not delete these kind of useless uninformed messages as they used to do just couple years ago
- rlt 6y ago
  I believe you are thinking of the term “assault weapon”, which was a term invented to help ban semi-automatic military-style rifles, that arguably aren’t significantly deadlier than other less scary looking semi-automatic rifles, but are politically more convenient to ban. “Assault rifle” is a valid term but it only refers to automatic rifles, which were already effectively banned for civilians. I don’t know whether that rifle (carried by a police officer) is automatic or semi-automatic.

jeffbee 6y ago

The guy with a carbine in the video is a police tactical officer. The main question about this scene is not why the secret service officer shot the woman who defied a lawful order by entering the chambers through a broken window and over the top of a barricade. The question is why she hadn't been shot long before.

LargeWu 6y ago
Yeah, you're right, the original video I saw was tightly shot and only showed the weapon. There was a similar video released later where those officers where coming up a staircase from behind.

kyleblarson 6y ago

There is no such thing as an 'assault rifle'. It is a made up term.

jeffbee 6y ago
If you're going to operate at the intersection of gun nuttery and prescriptive English usage, it would help you to be right. The US Army "Small Arms Identification Guide" defined the term at least 50 years ago. https://web.archive.org/web/20190904213732/http://031d26d.namesecurehost.com/gunfax/fstcp67.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20190904213732/http://031d26d.na...
CyanBird 6y ago
Sad to see moderators not delete these kind of useless uninformed messages as they used to do just couple years ago
rlt 6y ago
I believe you are thinking of the term “assault weapon”, which was a term invented to help ban semi-automatic military-style rifles, that arguably aren’t significantly deadlier than other less scary looking semi-automatic rifles, but are politically more convenient to ban. “Assault rifle” is a valid term but it only refers to automatic rifles, which were already effectively banned for civilians. I don’t know whether that rifle (carried by a police officer) is automatic or semi-automatic.